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Porsche calls on its suppliers to use 100% renewable energy to manufacture its components

July 6, 2021
Porsche looks to advance its efforts against CO2 emissions by calling upon its nearly 1,300 suppliers to only use renewable energy in manufacturing components for its vehicles. Currently, the sports car manufacturer’s supply chain contributes about 20% of its total greenhouse gas emissions. Porsche is a household name for automakers with nearly 100 years of experience developing and…
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Hands-on: Here’s how Background Sounds work in iOS 15

July 6, 2021
Ahead of WWDC in June, Apple announced Background Sounds would be coming to iOS to help users find focus, calm, and rest. Now in the iOS 15 beta, the feature is available to test out. Read along for how to use iPhone Background Sounds in iOS 15, what you get, what you…
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Google Photos alternatives: Some of the best free options [Video]

July 6, 2021
Now that Google Photos no longer offers free unlimited storage for your images and videos, you might be on the lookout for an alternative. After trialing a number of options, here is our shortlist of the best free Google Photos alternatives. The biggest downside is that if you’re hoping for an alternative that offers anything close to the seamless Google Photos experience without any sort of…
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Google TV’s ‘Improve your recommendations’ page accidentally ‘likes’ everything you ‘skip’

July 6, 2021
Google TV lets you like or dislike content in order to fine-tune homescreen recommendations. Last year, Google introduced an on-TV page to quickly improve recommendations, but it’s broken in a key way. Every TV show and movie listing on the new Chromecast and other television sets lets you thumbs up/down content. Google TV in December introduced a quicker way to refine recommendations that’s…
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Google Home gets redesigned Wi-Fi ‘Devices’ tab w/ old Wifi app features [Update: iOS]

July 6, 2021
In addition to a new Nest/Google Wifi update, the Google Home app is getting the last few remaining Wifi-related features from the old client that’s set to be deprecated. Update 7/5: Following the Android rollout, this redesigned Wi-Fi screen is now widely available on iOS following a server-side update. The views across the two platforms are identical, while the ability to “Check device…
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